20-tonne 8-wheel tipper
Mercedes Arocs and Scania P-cab. Workhorse for civils, housing groundworks, aggregate shuttle. 80–160 tonnes per day on local runs.
- Payload ~20 tonnes
- Body ~12m³
- Output 6–10 loads/day local
- Compliance Euro VI
20-tonne 8-wheel tippers on day rate or project rate. Muck-shifting, aggregate haulage and internal site moves on our civils-spec fleet from the Walsall yard.
Tipper vs grab
A grab is self-loading. The lorry turns up, the driver swings the arm over, loads itself. A tipper is faster but sits and waits while a digger or telehandler on your site loads it. Choose the wrong one and you either pay a grab to do what a tipper would do in half the time, or you pay a tipper standing idle with nothing to feed it.
What customers run them on
Most of the fleet is on rolling project work. We hold buffer capacity at the yard for short-notice cover when a sub's let someone down.
Highways, utility upgrades, drainage, infrastructure. We've run fleets on West Midlands network resurfacing, gas mains, water AMP-cycle work.
30-plot estates in Cannock, 80-plot phases in Solihull. Muck off, Type 1 and 6F2 back in. Project rates locked for the duration.
A 360 with a pulveriser fills an 8-wheeler in 6 minutes. Shuttle of two or three tippers, one loading-out, one queuing. That's the right answer.
Crushed-on-site material, stockpile-to-working-face, recycled inter-site moves. Cheapest option above 100 tonnes, with tip costs out of the equation.
The fleet
All Euro VI. Run from the Walsall yard with a workshop on site, so we don't carry the downtime that subcontract operators do.
Mercedes Arocs and Scania P-cab. Workhorse for civils, housing groundworks, aggregate shuttle. 80–160 tonnes per day on local runs.
Tighter access, suspect surfaces, suburban sites where the 8-wheeler is the wrong call. Same compliance pack, smaller envelope.
How we price it
Three pricing models, three different jobs. We'll tell you which fits when you call. Usually obvious from the scope.
One tipper, one driver, 8–10 hours, within a defined radius of Walsall. Best when you're loading on site, tipping locally, turning rapid, because more loads per day means lower cost per tonne.
Programme work, from a fortnight's groundworks through to a six-month civils job. Flat rate against agreed scope, priority allocation, your dispatcher knows the driver's name. QSes prefer this, because there's no day-to-day volatility.
One-off jobs: single tipper, 20 tonnes of muck off, Type 1 back. Simpler for the customer. Makes sense for under-a-day work.
What moves the day rate: distance from Walsall, project length (multi-day shaves the daily), compliance requirements, whether tip fees are bundled or passed through at cost with the WTN.
Coverage
Programme work anywhere from Coventry to Cannock. Short-notice cover from the Walsall buffer when a sub's let someone down.
FAQs
A grab lorry loads itself with a hydraulic grab arm. A tipper has to be loaded by a digger, loader or telehandler on your site. Tippers move volume faster when you have plant on site, but they're useless if there's nothing to load them. Grabs are slower per load but solve access problems a tipper can't.
Our 8-wheel tippers carry up to 20 tonnes, about 25% more than an 8-wheel grab because there's no grab equipment eating into the gross weight. Around 12m³ of soil or hardcore. A 6-wheel tipper carries around 15 tonnes.
Local muck-shift on Black Country sites: 6–10 loads per day per truck. Longer-haul jobs (Coventry, Stafford): 4–6. The constraint is usually the tip queue at peak times, not the lorry.
No. We run driver-and-vehicle hire only. Insurance and licensing make self-drive tipper hire impractical for most customers, and uneconomic for us.
Day rates don't include tip gate fees by default. They're passed through at cost with the WTN. We can quote an all-in rate that bundles tipping if you'd rather have a single number. Project rates usually include tipping at an agreed assumed material class.
Yes, and this is one of the main reasons project-rate tipper hire works out cheaper than per-load. The lorry tips your muck, loads from our yard or a quarry, drops on the way back. Zero empty running.
If a tipper has dropped off a programme and you need cover the next day, ring us. We hold buffer capacity at the Walsall yard for exactly this. Same-day mobilisation is harder but not impossible.
